Chapter 22: The Man in Red
"Incense...... Vanilla? ā
"Xu Tian, are you okay?"
Vanilla stretched out her arm and pulled Xu Tian up, a flush appeared around her eyes, and the joy of seeing that Xu Tian was okay couldn't suppress the guilt at all. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Xu Tian saw that Vanilla was covered with dust, his face was dirty, and his guilty expression had suppressed his haggardness.
"What happened last night? Where have you been? ā
"I ...... I was sitting at the mouth of the well waiting for you, and suddenly I felt that someone was shaking me with something like a mirror, and I got up and looked around, and suddenly a shadow came through the gate, and I chased it out. ā
"No wonder I forgot to take the walkie-talkie, if I'm not mistaken, you see a red shadow, right?"
"That's right! Dressed in a red robe, I chased all the way to the outside of the village, and the shadow kept running, and finally went around to the entrance to the mountain, and I followed. ā
"What's the matter with your dusty body, did you fight?"
"Not really, I just went up the mountain when I fell into a trap, but fortunately the trap was not deep, and I climbed up in the morning."
"Are you sure the trap isn't deep?" Xu Tian swallowed his saliva, "You are an athletic genius, the trap that can make you climb up in the morning must not be too simple, right?" ā
"You can come with me, I have something to say to you."
"What time is it? My phone is dead. ā
"Five forty-two."
"Villagers don't usually get out of bed, do they?"
"Basically, it's not the farming season, what are you going to do?"
"Yesterday someone threw a stone into the well, and I deliberately screamed, the murderer might think I was dead, so I had an idea, it would be better to plan it and wait until tomorrow when I attended the wedding of the big couples."
"Why do you deliberately show up at a wedding?"
"Because there are so many people at the wedding, I guess the whole village will go, right? If it's at a wedding, the murderer can't do whatever he wants, and I'm going to catch ghosts tomorrow after the wedding. ā
"Do you already know who the killer is?"
"I'm not sure yet, but there's a range, by the way, can Vanilla do me a favor?"
"You name it, and I will help you if I can."
"Let's go up the hill and talk as we go."
Vanilla took Xu Tian along the remote path to the entrance of the mountain, at this time the sun had risen high, Xu Tian grabbed Vanilla's wrist and looked at his watch, it was six twenty o'clock at this time.
"You...... What are you doing with me? Vanilla hurriedly put away her wrist and turned to walk up the hill.
Xu Tian hurriedly followed Vanilla's footsteps, "It takes about forty minutes from the village to the entrance, such a long time, you can do a lot of things." ā
"What do you think of again?"
"On the night of Xu Sanye's death, I asked Officer Zhang to stare at Xu Sanye, at that time Xu Sanye was walking from his own house to the entrance of the mountain, I observed the terrain, it seems that the road is closer than the small road, but Xu Sanye's home is not far from the entrance of the village, we started from grandma's neighbor's house, so the distance is not too much."
"I heard you say, did someone plan against you that night?"
"It's not just a calculation, I'm simply being teased by the murderer as a fool, but now what I can't figure out is why Hua Gu was involved, does Hua Gu know any secrets?"
"But the murderer didn't kill Hua Gu, why is that?"
"You're wrong, the murderer wanted to kill Hua Gu, but Xu Sanye's body blocked the funeral procession, which delayed my second master's burial time, someone should have deliberately put Xu Sanye's body on the small bridge, so that it could delay some time, that person wanted Hua Gu to be found by us."
"I'm a little confused about what you said, is there anyone else involved in this case?"
"There are really a lot of people involved, and you and I are one of them, don't you think Vanilla thinks it's strange? Since they have all been led out of the village by the murderer, and in the end they just fell into the trap, it is obvious that the murderer is deliberately leading you away. ā
"I see, the murderer's ultimate target is actually you, right?"
"Maybe! I don't know why this murderer wanted to kill me now, but I'm glad I escaped death last night. ā
"Right ahead." Vanilla pointed to a clearing in the woods, "That's the trap that trapped me." ā
Xu Tian approached and looked into the trap and found that the trap was almost ten meters deep, and there was straw underneath, but the walls of the trap were relatively flat, and there was no place to climb.
"Is this the trap?"
"That's right, this damn murderer can hurt me!"
"When you chased the man in red yesterday, did you always see that person in front of you?"
"I'm sure that the guy kept running, and I couldn't catch up."
"Is it fast?"
"This ...... How should this be said? I can't say it's fast, but I think that as long as I speed up, the man in red will speed up, and if I slow down and adjust my breathing, the man in red will also slow down. ā
"Is the road you are chasing a big road or a small road?"
"The road is unobstructed all the way, and I don't see anyone else."
"When you chase the trap, is the man in red still there?"
"I've been running ahead, I've been chasing, and shortly after I got up the hill, I fell in here."
Xu Tian squatted next to the trap, observing the inner side of the ten-meter-deep trap, his eyes slowly closed, at this time Xu Tian's brain was a little swollen, after all, he hadn't slept for so many days, and suddenly drowsiness came up, Xu Tian leaned back and fell to the ground with a thud.
"Xu Tian, Xu Tian ......"
"I'm going to the town, and I don't know if the road into the village has been dug up." Xu Tian opened his eyes and stood up.
"We can walk to town in the mountains, but we may not be able to reach it until midnight."
"It's okay, I just need to find the phone."
"You need a cell phone signal, right? I had my mobile phone with me, and we looked at it while walking, maybe there was a signal before we got to the town, but when I entered the village, I saw a signal tower outside the mountain, and I shouldn't have been able to get a signal very far. ā
"That's great, just let me make two phone calls, and maybe everything will be explained."
The sun is getting bigger and bigger, although the trees on the mountain can block some of the sun, but it is still very hot, the two are still walking uphill, before they reach the halfway up the mountain, Xu Tian is almost unable to support it, the tired body is like being filled with lead, the two feet are getting heavier and heavier, the heartbeat is also beginning to speed up, and there is a moment when they fall asleep in the blink of an eye.
"There's a mass grave ahead, let's avoid it, right?" Vanilla suggested.
"Okay, I don't want to go there either, but is there any other way?" Xu Tian leaned on the tree with one arm and said with difficulty.
"To the west, about five miles away, is the house where my aunt used to live." Vanilla walked back and helped Xu Tian up.
"Red Sister's house?" Xu Tian said excitedly.